The Economist - USA (2019-10-05)

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The EconomistOctober 5th 2019 5

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Contents


The world this week
8 A summary of political
andbusinessnews

Leaders
11 Robo-investing
Masters of the universe
12 Greece’s debt odyssey
End extend and pretend
12 Kashmir
Vale of tears
13 Technology and politics
Openseason
14 Politicalrhetoric
Downwiththepeople

Letters
16 OnBrexit,Afghanistan,
popes,Einstein,
Columbus,T.Boone
Pickens

Briefing
18 Robo-investing
Marchofthemachines

United States
21 Texas won’t turn blue
22 On impeachment
23 A union retreat
24 Kennedy 4.
24 University admissions
25 Alligators in the desert
26 LexingtonDougJones

The Americas
27 Peru’s president v congress
28 Chile’s lithium-battery
dream
28 Inuit orthography
30 BelloArgentina’s difficult
roadtoredemption

Asia
31 India’s courts and Kashmir
32 Elections in Afghanistan
33 Bumpkins’ brides in Japan
33 Halal-crazy Indonesia
34 Making Indian computer
chips
35 BanyanThe next phase in
theSouthChinaSea

China
37 Violence in Hong Kong
38 Cutting-edge weapons
40 ChaguanParading 70
years of Communism

Middle East & Africa
41 Crisis in Lebanon
42 Roads to ruin in Iraq
43 Netanyahu makes his case
43 Angola’s oil decline
44 Reform in Ethiopia

LexingtonDoug Jones, a
prophet of Deep South
moderation, illustrates
liberalism’s present pains
and future promise,
page 26

On the cover


Forget Gordon Gekko.
Computers increasingly call
the shots on Wall Street:
leader,page 11. How machines
manage markets: briefing,
page 18



  • China at 70—pomp and
    protests Official celebrations
    for National Day showed a
    worrying contempt for history:
    Chaguan,page 40. Weapons on
    parade, page 38. Hong Kong
    riots, page 37

  • Big Tech and the state gird
    for battleThe American
    government is lining up against
    the technology companies,
    page 55. Europe has so many
    complaints it hardly knows
    where to begin, page 56

  • Europe’s anti-populist
    backlashAfter a series of
    reverses, the populists are down
    but not out, page 45. Politicians
    who invoke “the people” are
    usually up to no good: leader,
    page 14

  • What would Trump’s gators
    cost? The president would like
    to reinforce his wall with a
    reptile-infested moat. We tot up
    the bill,page 25

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